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In a country where the average salary is barely £500 a month, jailed killers of Brazil’s senior judges, police and prison guards are paid a monthly “pension” of up to £1,300 by the country’s most dangerous crime syndicate.

The PCC, or First Capital Command, pays the men who murdered a top judge a decade ago £1,300 a month, as well as giving their families homes, according to an investigation by São Paulo’s justice department, which intercepted spreadsheets used by the gang.

The judge, José Antonio Machado Dias, had been in charge of paroles and transfers in one of the main